Full respect to Canada. The scale of their evolution over the past five to ten years has been nothing short of remarkable.
To go from being ranked 100th (!!!) in the world just a decade ago to reaching a Copa América semi-final and putting together such a solid World Cup campaign is extraordinary.
The progress is undeniable. Every Canadian should be proud. Very proud.
This👇 is word for word the case that I and other Albertans have been making for years.
Fellow Albertans: well done! We have won the argument about the need to expand Canada's energy industry!
Yes, words are necessary but not sufficient. We need to see them turned into real, tangible projects.
But we should celebrate the progress we have made, and take "yes" for an answer.
I wish Canada, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney, and all Canadians a Happy Canada Day. Ukraine joins you in celebrating this day. We appreciate Canada’s leadership in helping us protect the lives of our people across many domains: defense assistance, pioneering work on sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet and financial sector, diplomatic advocacy, and much more. We are grateful that we can count on your continued support in all these areas. Thank you, Canada!
No one is going to pick Canada over the Dutch or Morocco. Getting to this point of the World Cup is a massive achievement for the program. But fuck it. Keep going. Shock the world. Sports are weird. Anything can happen.
97 - Canada made 97 touches in the attacking box against Qatar, 26 more than any other team in a FIFA World Cup match on record (since 1966 - Germany 71 vs. Costa Rica in 2022).
Overwhelming.
The NYT is finally catching up...
If you're early in your career or still building, remote work is brutal:
- You miss real training, feedback, and institutional knowledge
- Productivity drops ~20% (MIT study)
- No mentors. No company culture.
- No bonding. No happy hours.
- Fewer real work friends
- Divorce rates and mental health issues spike
- Fewer spontaneous opportunities (client meetings, drinks with the boss, hallway ideas)
- Lower promotions and job security long-term
An op-ed from Canada’s Minister of Energy Tim Hodgson. If I read between the lines, it’s a response to AB separatists, environmental activists, some provincial and Indigenous leaders, or most likely some combination.
“In this time of global uncertainty, the countries that succeed will not be the ones that fight amongst themselves. They will be the ones that build.
So, let’s argue less and build more.”
https://t.co/yK84SHAmFu
FUN FACT
THE ONTARIO TEACHERS’ PENSION PLAN INVESTED $300 MILLION INTO SPACEX IN 2019
THAT STAKE IS NOW WORTH $16 BILLION
NEARLY A 5,200% RETURN IN 7 YEARS
THIS MAY GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE BEST INVESTMENTS EVER MADE BY A CANADIAN PENSION FUND
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Don’t look now, but the reigning AL Champions are sizzling.
The Blue Jays have won 11 of their last 15 after coming back from a 5-0 deficit in Baltimore last night. Vlad Guerrero Jr. delivered the clutch hit and Braydon Fisher locked down his first save:
Scottie Barnes this series vs. Cleveland:
24.1 PPG
8.6 APG
6.1 RPG
1.7 BPG
1.1 SPG
50.9% FG
38.1% 3P
39.0 MPG
Gave it his all — One of the best players in the league. 🔥🫡
BREAKING: A Presidential permit has been approved for a new bitumen pipeline that will initially deliver more than half a million barrels per day of Alberta oil to facilities and refineries throughout the United States. This project is a joint venture between two great Canadian and US companies South Bow and Bridger using existing assets.
After years of advocacy from our government, and following the signing of the Canada-Alberta Energy Agreement last year, the federal government has lifted their oil and gas production cap. This means Alberta producers will be able to produce more of the oil that the world needs. It’s incredible to see that work already paying off with announcements like this.
The US is our most important trading partner and we will continue to deliver energy to help secure North American energy dominance.
Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.
What went wrong?
In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:
1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.
The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.
This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.
Link to paper: https://t.co/ucoGyhEuAj